British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

Sharon Harrow

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as... Lees meer

Christopher Smart's English Lyrics

Rosalind Powell

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In her study of Christopher Smart's translating practice, Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart's poetics and... Lees meer

Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination

Srividhya Swaminathan, Adam R Beach

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term 'slavery' to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond... Lees meer

Wordsworth's Vagrants

Quentin Bailey

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman's Liberation Movement

Megan A Woodworth

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their heroine... Lees meer

Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination

Srividhya Swaminathan, Adam R Beach

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In the eighteenth century, literary representations of slavery encompassed a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic sl... Lees meer

Christopher Smart's English Lyrics

Rosalind Powell

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart's translations and the place and function of translation in Smart's poetry, Rosalind Powell propos... Lees meer

Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British dis... Lees meer

Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson

Bonnie Latimer

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer show... Lees meer

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

Marcus Tomalin

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, busi... Lees meer

Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830

Evan Gottlieb

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local,... Lees meer

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Marcus Tomalin

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary ... Lees meer

Bluestockings Now!

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Bringing together top specialists in the field, this edited volume challenges the theory that the eighteenth-century British intellectual women known ... Lees meer

Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830

Evan Gottlieb

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Surveying the literary and cultural landscapes of the long eighteenth century, this collection examines the many locales that shaped Britons' affiliat... Lees meer

British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

Teresa Barnard

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their... Lees meer

British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

Teresa Barnard

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their... Lees meer

British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

Sharon Harrow

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as... Lees meer

Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820

Mona Narain, Karen Gevirtz

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced ... Lees meer

Graveyard Poetry

Eric Parisot

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In... Lees meer

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

Marcus Tomalin

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, busi... Lees meer

Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660 1820

Mona Narain, Karen Gevirtz

• Paperback | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced ... Lees meer

Painting the Novel

Jakub Lipski

• Hardcover | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or a... Lees meer

Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730

Laura Linker

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examin... Lees meer

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films

Elizabeth Kraft

• Hardcover | Engels | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated b... Lees meer